{"id":54276,"date":"2021-01-31T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=54276"},"modified":"2021-01-31T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T09:00:37","slug":"dmca-takedowns-remove-perfectly-legal-plex-pages-from-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=54276","title":{"rendered":"DMCA Takedowns Remove Perfectly Legal Plex Pages From Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"plexPlex<\/a> is a multifunctional media software and service that allows users to easily access all their entertainment in one place. <\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s movies, music, TV-shows, or photos, Plex can organize and index, making the content ready to stream on a wide variety of supported devices. <\/p>\n

Like many other technologies Plex can be used for good and bad. There have been reports of people sharing vast libraries of the pirated content via Plex-powered servers, for example. But at the same time Plex is a gateway to legal streaming content including movies and series on its own Mediaverse<\/a> platform.<\/p>\n

The Mediaverse part of the Plex site appears to cause some confusion. While it offers content that can be legally streamed for free, it also lists many other titles, such as The Mandalorian<\/a>, Game of Thrones, Wonder Woman 1984, and Tenet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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These other titles are not freely available for streaming, of course. Plex merely added an informational page to its library so people can put these titles on their watchlist. However, not all copyright holders appear to get this distinction.<\/p>\n

Over the past month alone more than a handful of DMCA takedown requests were sent to Google, asking the search engine to remove these \u201ccopyright-infringing\u201d pages. The takedowns suggest that Plex offers access to the full videos and list its URLs together with those of notorious pirate sites. <\/p>\n

For example, \u2018CTW Anti-Piracy\u2019 sent a DMCA takedown request<\/a> to Google on behalf of Vertigo Releasing Limited, asking the search engine to remove the Plex information page for the film \u201cBecky<\/a>\u201c. The Plex page is highlighted below among more traditional pirate sites. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Similarly, \u2018Shoot-Down\u2019 sent a takedown notice<\/a> on behalf of DDI Double Dutch Inc for Plex\u2019s \u201cElliot the Littlest Reindeer\u201d page, while Groupe V Media hired \u2018Police Du Net\u2019 to remove<\/a> the page of \u201cCardinal\u201d season four. None of these pages link to pirated videos, obviously. <\/p>\n

We assume that these requests, and many<\/a> others<\/a>, were all sent by mistake but that doesn\u2019t mean that they are harmless. While Google is generally quite good at spotting errors, it missed these ones. That means that the Plex pages have actually been wiped from Google\u2019s search results. <\/p>\n

Instead of getting the Plex page, people will now see the following notice at the bottom of their search results. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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After browsing through several Plex takedown notices in Google\u2019s transparency report we also spotted one for which the search giant took \u201cno action<\/a>\u201c. However, that isn\u2019t because it is deemed to be an erroneous takedown, but because the URL wasn\u2019t indexed to begin with. <\/p>\n

We reached out to Plex to inform the company about the takedowns and requested a comment. The company informed us that they are aware of these notices and will try to work things out with the copyright holders individually. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s probably wise because too many notices put sites at risk of being demoted<\/a>, which can seriously hurt search traffic. <\/p>\n

From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\n

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Plex is a multifunctional media software and service that allows users to easily access all their entertainment in one place. Whether it\u2019s movies, music, TV-shows, or photos, Plex can organize and index, making the content ready to stream on a wide variety of supported devices. Like many other technologies Plex can be used for good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-torrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}